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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ZEPHINA'S MAMMA. At a rattling old piano sat the disconsolate Zephina, laboring over a piece of music. Her mother's patience, never very remarkable, was now quite exhausted. You are the most stupid girl in the world, Zephina, she exclaimed; you will never be fit for fashionable society. From all I know of fashionable society, stupidity would fit me better for it than any thing else, pettishly replied Zephina. This all comes from your being so much of late with those Homespuns in that horrid red house. Did you tell them I could not permit you to come there again ? inquired her mother. I did, replied Zephina. I had a nice breakfast first, and then how mean, how cruel, itwas to tell Beulah that I could not come to see her again because country folks are vulgar. She is much more genteel now than I am, or ever shall be. She looks sweetly in her snow-white aprons and homespun frocks. I prophesy that she will one day make as elegant a woman as her father's cousin, Mrs. Whately. And who is she ? A very lovely woman whom I saw there this morning, dressed so neatly, ? so ? I do n't know what to call it, for I hate the word genteelly, And then her carriage, that dark green coach, with the rich hammer-cloth, and the coal-black horses, ? all plain, yet so very elegant. And you say this was the Homespuns' cousin ? eagerly inquired Mrs. Fanshaw. Squire Morris's cousin, I said, mamma, and she had none of the fixed-up look that I do so abominate. Please give me something to wear besides this old trumpery, ? these old silk dresses and Madge Wildfire bonnets, I wish I had known before that there was such a lady visiting at the farm-house, said Mrs. Fanshaw, without taking any notice of her daughter's request. Cannot ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217228909 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217228909 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 108 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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